A Close Shave from the Past
I wonder how a mid-fourteenth-century Franciscan monk would have felt if he had known that late-twentieth-century magazine readers would vote to give him some aftershave as a Christmas present. Last...
View ArticleCredulity in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, by virtue of being a United States territory, is subject to just about every cultural trend that visits the mainland. The media is heavily influenced by their American equivalent, along...
View ArticleIt’s the End of the World (And I Feel Fine)
An article in the March 12, 1994, Washington Post begins: “Connie Roberson and her husband, Jimmy, don’t save for retirement or their children’s college education. Victor Jackson, a senior at...
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The Eyes that Spoke
In his final book, Aliens from Space (1973), Donald Keyhoe briefly recounted his involvement in starting the investigation of Barney and Betty Hill that eventually led to John Fuller’s publication of...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
There was one remarkable omission from “The Diary of a No-Body” (SB, June 1994). Lewis Jones made absolutely no mention of dreams and dreaming. Yet no one seems to have offered any reason why we...
View ArticleMeeting the Millenium
I clock the millennium. Some years ago it occurred to me that as the calendrical millennium approached, it was increasingly likely that America was going to be awash in ideas of a final redemption and...
View ArticleMaybe They’re Onto Us After All
Ran into my good friend Dr. Perry Noyeyuh the other day and he greeted me with the statement “I’m onto you people and I know what you've been up to. You and your cronies will not get away with it.”...
View ArticleA Phil Klass Book for Kids
CSICOP is continually receiving letters from schoolchildren looking for information on a variety of subjects for use in their school work or because of a personal interest. One of the most popular...
View ArticleTachyons and Other Nonentities
Sliding (faster than a beam of light) across my desk recently came a copy of a full-page ad that had appeared in a journal called Pacific Spirit. The heading on this page is: “TACHYON: YOUR HEALTH AND...
View ArticleIf Looks Could Kill and Words Could Heal
Reading Larry Dossey’s fascinating recent book, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine (Harper, 1993) brings to mind an interesting story about an event in Minnesota a little...
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